Ernesto Gonzalez

A Look at Havana’s Architectural Heritage

Nearly five centuries old, the city of Havana boasts a highly eclectic architecture, drawing from styles as different as the Gothic, futurism, the Baroque, cubism and art deco. The pictures show some of the city’s most renowned buildings and monuments, (39 photos)

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A Look at the Havana Barrio of “Los Pinos”

Los Pinos is a neighborhood located in the peripheral Havana municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, adjacent to others of the same municipality such as Vieja Linda and Miraflores and the railway line that divides it from the municipality of Boyeros. (38 photos)

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Havana’s Dispossessed

Like any other city in the world, Havana is not without underprivileged individuals living in abject poverty who barely manage to survive every day, particularly near the end of their days. We must acknowledge the many things done in Cuba to help the disabled, children, young people and the elderly. These things, however, are apparently not enough. (23 photos)

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Cuba: Baseball or Soccer?

While officially baseball is still the national sport in Cuba, for a while now young Cubans passion for soccer is growing fast. A common sight today in parks and squares of Havana, Pinar del Rio, Matanzas and other cities are children playing soccer.(25 photos)

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